The ship arrived with five slaves below board but with the captain, mates, doctor and five other crewmen dead.
The Perle was bound from St John’s River on what is now on the Liberian coast with 244 slaves, including 30 – 40 children bound for the sugar plantations.  Most of the human cargo had been transferred to another slaver’s boat. 

The St. Malo – registered boat had a recorded crew of twelve and, when it arrived in Hayle, was found to contain chains, manacles and shackles and the five, still just alive, slaves were found chained up below deck.  They had no knowledge of French or English and so could not give their names. Brought before Lord Chief Justice in London, they were released from slavery and taken to the Hampstead Workhouse where all contracted measles, and two died.  The three survivors were returned to West Africa and nothing else is known of them.

The Perle was removed of her chains, shackles and manacles and then, quite astonishingly returned to her owners on January 25th, 1826 on the very same day that the above-advertised anti-slavery meeting was held in St. Ives.